Federal funding for the Monmouth, Ocean, Middlesex (MOM) Passenger Rail Line has cleared a major hurdle by garnering the approval of a key House subcommittee U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) announced today. The House Appropriations Committee agreed to the requests put forth by Smith and U.S. Rep. Jim Saxton’s (R-NJ) for funding for the study on the proposed reactivation of the MOM line by adding $1 million dollars to FY08 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill. That bill ... Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) called today’s meeting between two federal agencies and members of the New Jersey Congressional delegation a “positive step” toward ensuring a thorough and exhaustive investigation into the plan to close Fort Monmouth. Read more

Earlier this week, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) was presented the "Srebrenica 1995" award in recognition of his "efforts to promote truth and justice" in the wake of the atrocities in Bosnia and for his "contribution to the resistance against genocide in the world." Smith was selected for the award by mothers of the victims of the massacre in Srebrenica. More about the award is available here.The following is a statement Smith submitted to the Congressional Record to honor the lives of those los... Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) was presented the "Srebrenica 1995" award last night in recognition of his "efforts to promote truth and justice" in the wake of the atrocities in Bosnia and for his "contribution to the resistance against genocide in the world." Read more

Citing a 2002 case in New Jersey as an example of the many instances where Russian women have been trafficked to the U.S., Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) today encouraged deputies of the Duma to build on their laws to combat human trafficking by adding more protections for victims during a meeting in the Great Hall of the Moscow Duma. Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04) today announced that the Inspector General of the Department of Defense (DOD) will begin an investigation—as requested by Smith—into the Navy’s proposal to open up military housing at Naval Weapons Station Earle in Monmouth County to the general public. Read more

Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Chairman, someday future generations of Americans will look back on us and wonder how and why such a rich and seemingly enlightened society, so blessed and endowed with the capacity to protect and enhance vulnerable human life, could have instead so aggressively promoted death to children by abortion. They will note that we prided ourselves on our human rights rhetoric and record, while precluding virtually all protection to the most persecuted minority in the world ... Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04), co-chairman of the Bipartisan Pro-Life Caucus, today issued the following statement praising President George W. Bush for vetoing S. 5, a bill to allow federal funding for embryo-destroying stem cell research and for expanding the federal government’s commitment to effective, ethical stem cell research: Read more

A resolution authored by U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) that calls on Russian President Vladimir Putin to step-up efforts to investigate a decade-long string of mysterious murders of journalists in Russia was overwhelmingly approved by the U.S. House of Representatives today. Read more

Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, having personally visited Uganda in April 2006, I chaired a hearing on the endangered children of northern Uganda for the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations. We heard from a number of witnesses and we raised it and continue to raise it with the administration. But one of our witnesses was a particularly noteworthy person, Grace Akallo. Grace is, or was, a child soldier, an abducted ... Read more